I’ve always loved this quote.

You can have all of the company in the world, but if you find yourself keeping the things that are most important to you buried in your brain - and the ideas that inspire and empower you small and stifled - we shrink our stories as creatives - and as human beings. (& we’ll always feel that sense of otherness - loneliness and lack, anyway)

For me - seeking my tribe - finding my people - and connecting with a creative community of likeminded people within my people -  is the antidote to this sort of existential abyss. We are social creatures.  People rarely grow much, alone. 

We are better together. High hills look easier to hurdle together.  I remind myself of this - and try to keep asking - How can I help? Who can I serve? And maybe, out of that abyss - something bigger, bolder and more interesting emerges. In community, for community.

Alone we can change a neighborhood. Together we can change the world.